From creator Tanya Saracho and starring Mishel Prada and Melissa Barrera, Vida was unrivaled in its authentic portrayal of grief, intimacy, and queerness in the Latinx community. It's a truly wild journey that's the absolute perfect binge for right now. Do I need to even tell you that things do not go as planned? As a seven-episode miniseries, there isn't much room for filler as we watch Elizabeth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy, excellent) grow from a pill-popping 9-year-old orphan to a champion taking on the Russians on their home turf. Reuters.com brings you the latest news from around the world, covering breaking news in markets, business, politics, entertainment, technology, video and pictures. The titular Ted (Jason Sudeikis) is an American college football coach who heads to England to coach an actual football (soccer, for the uninitiated) team. As impressive as the physical feats are, though, the most exceptional trick P-Valley achieves is making the audience care deeply about people we've all been taught to judge, or at the very least ignore: poor, largely uneducated Black women whose stories society has deemed unimportant or natural consequences of their own moral failings. Somewhere underneath about 40 pounds of unkempt beard and a layer of caked-on dirt is Ethan Hawke like you've never seen him. Chess? Tender, hilarious, and pulse-quickening, the show is one of the year's best offerings for making viewers realize how much we have in common with these remarkable people who've found a way to turn tragedies into triumphs. Mostly, though, the show is about Garland's obsession with building lightbulbs into the walls of the set to give everything a beautiful golden glow. Schitt's Creek is a show we will watch again and again whenever we need some happiness. El vecino is expected to make its debut in 2020 on Netflix. The final season saw the sisters' relationship tested once again, as old wounds and their long-lost father threatened everything Lyn (Barrera) and Emma (Prada) had built together. As Harmon, Anya Taylor-Joy again shows why many peg her to be a future Oscar winner in one of the great performances of the year, and Frank's direction and visual palette are entrancing, particularly for those of us who are fans of smart '60s clothes and dazzling wallpaper. –Kelly Connolly, There is no show on TV quite like On My Block, which follows a group of Black and Latinx teens in South Central Los Angeles. It's great, filled with fun writing and an energetic performance from its lead, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, who meets every of Devi's obstacles with spirit and a smile. the first must-watch Netflix show of the year, salacious details surrounding the NVIXM cult, the performances we couldn't stop talking about. It's a heartwarming, charming, and romantic little show, which is the perfect holiday tonic in a year that feels like anything but those adjectives. In between, there's romance, addiction, and feminism, but it's also cool to watch for the fancy threads, decked-out hotels, and gorgeous wallpaper. Not everything in 2020 was terrible, though. WATCH NOW! Starting with a mystery and a ticking clock, P-Valley follows several characters but focuses chiefly on a woman named Autumn Night (Elarica Johnson), who is on the run from some kind of undisclosed trouble and winds up at a country juke/strip joint named The Pynk. -Liam Mathews [REVIEW | TRAILER], Jason Segel and Eve Lindley, Dispatches From Elsewhere, Premiered March 1 | Watch on AMC Jason Segel created this experimental dramedy, and How I Met Your Mother fans are in for a real trip. The best part of the show is that the challenges they face are systemic rather than from a few bad racist apples, and the stories vary wildly so they don't feel repetitive. –Tim Surette, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Dan Levy, Noah Reid, Emily Hampshire, Annie Murphy, Schitt's Creek, If heaven had a creek, it truly would be this one. [TRAILER], Premiered November 10 | Watch on NetflixThis one is for the holiday lovers who might be feeling a bit disenchanted in 2020, even at what is supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year. — we've decided to keep it simple with an alphabetical list. Kipo's message of positivity and inclusivity is an unexpected salve for the hostility and divisiveness that has infected our country this year. Please visit our FAQ page for more information. The season finale alone is the kind of pure euphoric magic that will have you wishing you could be 14 all over again. 2. Few shows in 2020 had the power and word-of-mouth buzz of I May Destroy You, a dark, deeply personal, and moving masterpiece from Michaela Coel. The difference-maker with Love Fraud was that directors Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady were embedded with Smith's marks, who banded together to hunt him down, unspooling the sordid tale of twists and turns as it happened, and concluding with a mesmerizing finale interview with Smith that is one of the most awkward things you'll ever see. –Sadie Gennis, This criminally underappreciated series concluded this year after three near-perfect seasons. –Lauren Zupkus, The Boys premiered in 2019 as a raunchy, borderline absurdist response to superhero culture at a time when we were all still riding the high of Avengers: Endgame becoming the highest-grossing film in history. We all remember the thong debacle, but the bits that really stuck with us were Maya's (Maya Erskine) reckoning with race and Anna (Anna Konkle) dealing with her parents' messy divorce. In a year brimming with indifference and even cruelty, The Baby-Sitters Club came through to remind us exactly what it looks like when integrity and goodness are the prevailing principles. It revealed to fans what it might be like if their favorite caped crusaders had corporate backers and weren't all altruistic saviors. (Disclosure: Links to retailers may earn money to support our work. –Noelene Clark, The Last Dance is not without its faults. Of course, unexpected forces — love, betrayal, family, lust, trauma — complicate all of their plans, forcing them to align and collide in ways they hadn't imagined. The club, run by the nonbinary and wickedly smart Uncle Clifford (Nicco Annan), is facing imminent closure — an impetus for its main attraction, Mercedes (Brandee Evans), to go legit and leave the stripper life behind for good. The series, which has been renewed for a second season because sometimes we can have nice things, faithfully adapts Ann M. Martin's classic children's books while also sprinkling in some more contemporary issues for those gumptious baby-sitters to deal with through their kindness-first approach to caregiving. How wrong they'd be. In other words, it's simply the best. Needless to say, he’s a little underqualified. [REVIEW | TRAILER], Premiered August 6 | Watch on Sundance Now Some of the best television can't be properly lauded or explained by the logline alone. The result is the same -- many tissues will be needed -- but the importance and relevance is multiplied in this new Party of Five. I know what you're thinking, "For real, TV Guide? [TRAILER], Premiered October 23 | Watch on Netflix Scott Frank (Godless) carefully adapts the 1983 novel about a female chess prodigy in the 1950s and 1960s, following author Walter Tavis' lead and taking a subject that should be boring and turning it into a thriller. In 12 stunning, sometimes unsettling episodes, the series follows what happens after hip young writer Arabella, played by Coel, realizes she'd been drugged and raped while out drinking in her home city of London. Song Exploder. –Tim Surette. Early in the season, Elliot informs Portia (Meredith Hagner) it was "below the belt" of her to state a fact — that he did, in fact, help his friends bury a body — but it's Dory, especially, who has her sanity tested. Ted Lasso is the Animal Crossing of TV shows. The title itself leaves us with more questions than answers -- it's not clear who the "I" or "You" are, and in interviews, Coel never gives a firm answer -- and it's that kind of cerebral, bring-to-it-what-you-want fluidity that made the show so alluring. Our girls are finally growing up. Featured Shows. Quiz is also based on a true story; in 2001, Charles Ingram, along with his sister and her husband, devised a plan to win the big prize in the U.K.'s massive new hit series Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, leading to a criminal trial that became a huge story overseas. The scramble to save face and her marriage is a bumpy one for Suzie, who goes through the wringer in the dark comedy that isn't afraid to mix raunch with sharp observations about celebrity. With Jack Dylan Grazer, Jordan Kristine Seamón, Chloë Sevigny, Alice Braga. She plays Arabella, an author who is drugged and sexually assaulted in a bar, and comes to with a vague memory that something bad happened to her, but she's not sure who's responsible. The season is packed with big laughs, stand-out episodes (the one set at the sponsored wedding of John Early's Elliot is an instant classic), and exceptional performances from a cast of actors who have fully grown into their roles. But if the first season of What We Do in the Shadows was set up for success by the hilarious feature film of the same name, Season 2 revealed that Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi, and the show's writing staff have gotten so comfortable in this extension of the film's world that they not only can meet the movie's genius, but surpass it completely. The docuseries makes it seem like everyone involved in the big cat industry is a larger-than-life personality, and none are larger than Joe, a charismatic gun-toting gay polygamist who won't let anyone tell him what to do with his big cats. As memories of what happened that night come back to her in spurts, the series shifts perspective, playing with notions of consciousness and chronicling her descent as she deals with the trauma and pain of the assault. Phil isn't a chef or a culinary expert; he's just a guy who loves food and meeting new people, which gives the show a relatable casualness that makes it easy to imagine experiencing his adventures yourself. And while that levity certainly wasn't absent in Season 4, the most recent installment was all about emotional payoff, and whew, it delivered in the most explosive way. –Allison Picurro, In less than 30 minutes, ESPN's poignant documentary sheds light on an American epidemic largely ignored by lawmakers and civilians alike: violence against and mistreatment of Indigenous women. It's been a few since Netflix's last horny teen hit; this looks like the next one. Only the savviest of cultural connoisseurs knew that the series, about the goings-on of a strip club in a fictional town in the Mississippi Delta, was an adaptation of playwright Katori Hall's work Pussy Valley, and that behind the pasties and G-strings was a layered, complex, and expertly crafted drama about women we usually ignore. The show is inclusive and so very, very pure. It tells the story of Joe Exotic, a private zoo operator who was arrested for hiring hitmen to kill an animal rights activist who was trying to shut him down. This is how prestige television is done -- even if the story ultimately comes up a bit short, the performances and visuals are enough to keep you watching. As we approach the final days of 2020, TV Guide has rounded up the top 25 shows of the year, but rather than rank them — how does one compare the hilarious antics of What We Do in the Shadows to something as emotionally powerful as I May Destroy You? -Kaitlin Thomas [REVIEW | TRAILER], Premiered April 12 | Watch on HBO Early on in HBO's new series Run, you'll know that the two main characters (Merritt Wever and Domhnall Gleeson) totally have the hots for each other. Photo By: Getty Images. But co-creators Peter Gould and Vince Gilligan dug deep into Saul Goodman's (Bob Odenkirk) past for another fantastic character study that wasn't about growth; it was about change. Yeah! That doesn't say much, but it's great. Netflix, December 15. The rest of the team made us all want to strive to impress intrepid coach (and now Dancing with the Stars alum) Monica Aldama. Edited by Kaitlin Thomas and Noelene Clark Illustration by Jessie Cowan. Life After Lockup Five couples face parole and temptations in "Life After Lockup" - will they break rules or break old habits? But it's the time he spends with real people -- a wrestling fan who tries to catch child predators, for example -- that unlocks universal truths and turns How To with John Wilson into something profound and hilarious. –Allison Picurro, India Oxenberg, Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult, The salacious details surrounding the NVIXM cult could make practically any series about the group watchable, which is probably why HBO's The Vow got as much attention as it did when it premiered in late August. –Amanda Bell, Rhea Seehorn and Bob Odenkirk, Better Call Saul, As a spin-off of one of television's greatest shows of all time, not everyone thought Better Call Saul was necessary. I couldn't believe it either. - Liam Mathews [REVIEW | TRAILER], Premiered March 16 | Watch on HBO This limited series, written by The Wire's David Simon and Ed Burns, is based on a book by legendary novelist Philip Roth. -Liam Mathews [REVIEW | TRAILER], Walter Cordopatri and Giuseppe De Domenico, ZeroZeroZero, Premiered March 6 | Watch on Amazon Prime Video Amazon's violent, prestige-y, multi-continental crime epic ZeroZeroZero, produced in partnership with Sky Atlantic and Canal+, could potentially be the answer to Netflix's Narcos. She stars in this miniseries as Cassie, a hard-partying flight attendant who jumps into a one-night stand in Bangkok with a hunk (Michiel Huisman) and wakes up next to his freshly murdered corpse. Fueled by the mistreatment of Indigenous women that he witnessed while working as a probation officer, Kipp started the gym to help women and girls learn to defend themselves, and to provide a drug and alcohol-free haven in an addiction-plagued society. We can't change our past, but we still have a say in our future, and no show portrays that better than On My Block. Gamers are legion, after all. Billie Piper delivers an award-worthy performance as she absolutely becomes Suzie Pickles, an actress whose career and family get blown to bits when her phone is hacked and racy photos are leaked on the internet. The premiere will take you right back to how you felt in 2015-16, as Lindbergh's rise makes people uneasy, but they don't think he could actually be elected. Keep a close eye out on this version of Peter the Great (Nicholas Hoult), one of the all-time best depictions of royal doofusry to ever grace the television. The rest is made up to make it fun and entertaining. This is a unique but memorable combination that delivers laugh-out-loud moments of absurdity in one minute only to turn around and offer up sobering commentary on living within a cycle of violence and trauma, the result of nothing more than circumstance, in the next. 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